Audio Column by Sukey Howard

Much has been written about Alzheimer's, from the strictly scientific to the soppy and sentimental. Though moving memoirs have appeared, none have been written, and now in part read, by an actual Alzheimer's sufferer. Tom DeBaggio, a commercial herb grower and former journalist, was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's in 1999 when he was only 57. At first he viewed it as a death sentence,...